Appeals Court Upholds Obama's Health Care Law — The Obama administration won the first appellate review of the 2010 health care law on Wednesday as a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati held that it was constitutional for Congress …

Sixth Circuit upholds ObamaCare mandate — The decision got overlooked in all of the attention to Barack Obama's press conference, but nonetheless this will make some big news. The Sixth Circuit has denied an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center and a group of individuals whose challenge …

Obama picks fight with GOP over tax cuts for the rich — The primary goal of President Obama's presser, which just wrapped up, was obvious: He was clearly out to pick a major public fight with Republicans over tax cuts for the rich. Obama mounted a surprisingly aggressive moral case …

How you know the negotiations have truly failed — (SHAWN THEW VIA BLOOMBERG) The best advice I've gotten for assessing the debt-ceiling negotiations was to “watch for the day when the White House goes public.” As long as the Obama administration was refusing to attack Republicans publicly …

Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant — John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant. — Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 …

What Does Newt Gingrich Know? — Let's consult the literature — all 21 books by the self-proclaimed ideas man of politics. (Gingrich cites 23 books on his Web site. We are not counting the Contract With America or the coffee-table book “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny.") — Multimedia

Has Bachmann Met Her Waterloo? … Like This Story — Follow Slate's Fighting Words … - Do Gay Bars Make a Lot of Money? - Extremely Witty Poems by a Poet Who Was Sure He Was Going to Hell- Shafer: Why Patch and Other Hyperlocal Journalism Is a Complete Waste …

Jewish Dems losing faith in Obama — David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama's standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples — all Obama voters in 2008 — nearly turned into a screaming match.

Rudy breaks vows — The gay car dealer who opened his home to Rudy Giuliani in 2001 during his humiliating divorce battle says the former mayor offered to preside at his wedding if same-sex marriage were ever legalized — but is now ducking his calls to make good on the offer.

'That's why they're called leaders' — One of the more common Republican criticisms of President Obama, at least in the context of the debt-reduction talks, is that he hasn't shown enough “leadership.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the floor late last week to cry …

Taking Action Matters — Something I like to ask people who are disgruntled with the performance of the political system is what have you, personally, done about it? When was the last time you wrote or called your member of Congress? Can you even name the people who represent …

Obama needs to create jobs, not fight for them — (Mark Wilson - Bloomberg) Ron Klain, former chief of staff to both Al Gore and Joe Biden, thinks President Obama needs to make more of a show of fighting for job-creating policies. “The greatest risk to the president will be if the American people believe …

Report: ‘Neo-Taliban’ are most dangerous terror group — Violent Islamist groups in Pakistan have coalesced under the Taliban umbrella to become the world's most significant terrorist threat and are the most capable of obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a report released Wednesday.

DCCC raising off Boehner's tears — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is circulating a fundraising pitch asking donors to “Make John Boehner Cry.” — “We all know it doesn't take much to make Speaker Boehner get teary-eyed. But let's give him something to really cry about …

Greece Passes Austerity Budget. Did they Make a Mistake? — This morning, Greece passed another austerity budget. This has been, to put it mildly, unpopular. The country has been beset by days of riots in protest of the spending cuts, apparently led by self-proclaimed anarchists who seem …

Obama Breaks Silence About Boeing v. NLRB Labor Dispute — ABC News' Amy Bingham reports: — President Obama broke his silence today about the dispute between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board over a proposed plant in South Carolina. — The move by the NLRB to block Boeing's plan …

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